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ALBERT SIDNEY IVAITZFELDER, OF NEV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR` TO TI-IEKURSIIEEDT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DRESS-STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,443, dated J' une23, 1896.

Application filed November 28, 1894.` Serial No. 530,239. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ALBERT SIDNEY WAITZ- FELDER, a resident of the city,county, and State of New York, have invented an Improved Dress-Stay, ofwhich the following is a speciication.

My invention relates to dress-stays or garment-distenders, and has forits object to produce a new and useful braided dress-stay orgarmentdistender having a stiff body, of flat strips, overlaid withyarns or threads running uninterruptedly in straight lines from edge toedge, and which are braided at the outer edges of the strips and filledwith longitudinal threads, -known `as underwarps,7 between such stripsin such a manner as to producel the character of edging known assoutache between the strips.

To this end my invention consists in the article of manufacturehereinafter described and claimed.

My invention will be understood by referring to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Iigures 1 and 2are detail plan and transverse sectional views, respectively, of `aportion of a dress-stay or garment-distender made according to myinvention.

Heretofore in the manufacture of hat-wire and the like it` has beencustomary to cover a flat or round wire with threads or yarns bybraiding the same over the entire surface of the wire, so as to producethe effect of a continuous covering of fabric. By my invention I coverthe faces of two hat resilient strips, such as spring-steel, with yarnsor threads running in straight lines across both` faces of each stripfrom edge to edge, and braidedat the edges only, to produce areticulated or open effect upon the body or faces of the strips, and bybringing two longitudinal or underwarp threads of greater diameter thanthe thickness of the resilient strips adjacent to the inside edges ofthe strips and braiding the threads around and between th em as well asbetween a strip and its next adjacent underwarp to produce an edgingknown as soutache between the flat strips, and a braided beading withouta fillingthread on the outer edge of the stay or distender.

' In the drawings, II II represent two strips of resilient material,such as spring metal, which have overriding braiding-threads e, eX-tending in an open-work manner in straight lines across both facesthereof without interlocking. rIhese threads are interbraided at theouter edge of each of the strips I-I II" to `form a close beading g gand are interbraided with longitudinal filling-threads or underwarps ofgreater diameter` than the thickness of the dress-stay or of theresilient strips thereof at d2 d2, so as to forni what is known as asont-ache edge between the strips. By this construction means areprovided by the underwarps of the soutache for guiding the needle insecuring the stay to the garment to which it is attached and at the sametime forming by the soutache and braided beading edges secure means bywhich the article can be attached to the garment without exposing theattaching-threads, thereby providing an efficient article which is cheapin construction, can be readily attached, and presents an ornamentalappearance.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to make a dress stay or distenderwith an openwork covering. I am also aware that it is not broadly new toemploy a single flat resilient strip in distenders, and such I do `notclaim; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A dress stay or distender comprising two flat metallic resilient strips,acloseIy-braided beading on the outer edge of each of said strips, allthe threads constituting the said beading extending in straight linesacross and overriding the faces ofsaid strips and forming an open-workseries of parallel strands which are interbraided between the 'fiatstrips with two fibrous warp-strands of greater diameter than thethickness of the flat resilient strips to form a close edging,substantially as described.

ALBERT SIDNEY WAITZFEIIDER.

"Witnesses z FERNANDO SOLINGER, CHARLES E. SMITH.

